The Lord of the Rings Challenge

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Day 71 - Long day. Almost all of it in job, so no time to temptations. Felling better than yesterday.

- I usually suffer urges the 1st, 7th, 10th and 20th days. Beware these days. Also 30th and 60th, but in other forms.
- Pray with devotion.
- Good hygiene and good habits are a must.
- Minimum usage of phone.
- Evade any lustful though, especially the memories and the fantasies.
- Flee from anything that coul (surely it will do) slippery slope into relapsing. Run away as fast and hard as you can. Make no concessions.
- Improve relationships. Do not pass alone much time.
- Forget about women and girlfriends. Rationalize your situation. Be mature and ready to make sacrifices. It's not your moment yet. First you must be man, and you become dominating yourself.
- Don't let the stress control you.
- There is a time to work, and another to relax. Everything has its moment, specially to start and to finish.
- Get to your bed in time. Control and improve your circadian rhythm.
- Don't think too much about your parts, even physically.
- Get your hands away from your parts.
- Don't enter your bedroom or in your bed with the phone, and don't leave it at a hand.
- Don't stay in the toilet more time that the necessary.
- Don't drink too much alcohol.
- There are some people (and conversations) you must evade, they don't help you to recover from PMO.
- Private DNS active: adult-filter-dns.cleanbrowsing.org
- I recommend the book «Your brain on porn». It has easily and free access in the web.
 
Day 1 - Not too bad, not too hard, but ot can be tough because of where I work I see scantily dressed women, but I'm not looking for them I just look some where else, set my sight on something like the picture frame on a wall.

My previous attempts to let go of the "ring" I've gotten through my first week easily enough, remaining distracted with other things, work, something creative like cooking, and spiritual things like studying.

Another day lies ahead, I'll be checking back in tomorrow!
 
Day 37

I went for a longer walk today with my mom. I'm trying to get her on a diet similar to mine and it seems like she's taking to it.

Lately there have been all these caterpillars crawling around here. They are black with an orange stripe across them with these bristles that are a bit rough to the touch. A lot of people just seem to step on them, drive over them etc. but I try to move them to safer areas.
 
Day 72 - Wasted day: no concentration and no energy. Discomforted about a group of friends falling apart, I'm surprised how things could change in a bit of time.

- I usually suffer urges the 1st, 7th, 10th and 20th days. Beware these days. Also 30th and 60th, but in other forms.
- Pray with devotion.
- Good hygiene and good habits are a must.
- Minimum usage of phone.
- Evade any lustful though, especially the memories and the fantasies.
- Flee from anything that coul (surely it will do) slippery slope into relapsing. Run away as fast and hard as you can. Make no concessions.
- Improve relationships. Do not pass alone much time.
- Forget about women and girlfriends. Rationalize your situation. Be mature and ready to make sacrifices. It's not your moment yet. First you must be man, and you become dominating yourself.
- Don't let the stress control you.
- There is a time to work, and another to relax. Everything has its moment, specially to start and to finish.
- Get to your bed in time. Control and improve your circadian rhythm.
- Don't think too much about your parts, even physically.
- Get your hands away from your parts.
- Don't enter your bedroom or in your bed with the phone, and don't leave it at a hand.
- Don't stay in the toilet more time that the necessary.
- Don't drink too much alcohol.
- There are some people (and conversations) you must evade, they don't help you to recover from PMO.
- Private DNS active: adult-filter-dns.cleanbrowsing.org
- I recommend the book «Your brain on porn». It has easily and free access in the web.
 
Day 2- admittedly this was a difficult day, sometimes hearing certain triggering words make things awkward and think how far gone I'd become that just hearing certain chains of words had so much power over me, it's sad. Think of them doesn't bother me, but hearing someone say it, it's just different. Happy to say nothing happened, I was in the middle of working and alone, at least in a safe way where no one had to see me bothered by it so win-win.

Looking into trigger prevention plans and how to formulate one for myself. Right now knowing that I need to be strong so I can bring the next message here is good but I don't think I can "fool" my brain mentally to survive on that alone. (Not to offend anyone here or the forum, I've become very aware of myself in a way that I recognize my personality as knowing what my heart/emotions wants and what I want from my mind/reason wants.

But there is another side to this project I am working on and its a spiritual/scriptural one.

My regards to everyone for another day, working as hard as we can.
 
Day 38

Doing a lot of research today on my mom's cancer, I think I may have found the ticket. It is very complicated though. There is so much body chemistry involved that I don't understand. Some say cancer is a metabolic disease and I am starting to wonder, the explanation seems convincing to me when I hear it out.

I don't have much energy to write much...
 
Day 54. IV.

Worked late, went to gym late, now I am quickly eating and I should go to sleep soon.

Tomorrow morning I'll go to moviefilm theater with my mates and in the afternoon I am meeting other mate.

This is my life now I guess.

I guess I don't have time to relapse.

Tomorrow evening and Sunday morning will be most dangerous. I have to be muy careful.

I would like to write more here. I have various thoughts about hardmodes. But again. Not much time. Maybe someday.

Aukštyn-žemyn, mes ratais bėgame;
Žemyn-aukštyn, toliau.

Aukštyn-žemyn, mes ratais bėgame;
Žemyn-aukštyn, toliau.

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54 days hardmode.
Helpers:
- No coffee.
- Going to sleep on time.
- No news sites.
 
Day 3 - not too crazy today, was kept busy during work and had to stay busy with finding places related to my work, being too busy to think of temptation, but I feel for my brothers here, the weekend is the toughest spot.

Remembering why I, why we need to keep at it. I don't know everyone's situation but remember that you made some pretty awesome decisions. -You made an account, because you know you need to beat this journey
-You keep typing here, because you want someone to hear that you're still trying and we all see it
-You want to succeed over something that's ruled the real you deep down.

It's difficult 1000%, but you're going to be fine not "putting on the ring". Drop the ring, imagine the ring in your hand like Bilbo and drop it walk away.
 
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